arqtype

3457 pts ยท September 29, 2013


This is really cool, and also a really nice demonstration of how to make a video that couldn't (currently) be generated by an AI (I'm pretty sure). Move the camera around on all axes, demonstrating consistent parallax, focal depth, and object permanence.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What in the world are you talking about? AI generates video frame by frame from scratch, there's no 3D rendering involved. Anyway, it's not real video unless Inspector Gadget is holding the camera; the "zoom" is actually the "camera" moving much closer to the dog. Look how the perspective changes. And the guy's earring grows like a mushroom out of his ear lobe. It's AI.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Probably that a critical reply by some twitch streamer got more than twice as many hearts as the VP of the USA.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The smooth panning probably is in-phone AI stabilization, but I don't think an AI would be able to make that many fish without any merging or splitting or other artifacts, and I can't spot any.

5 months ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

That's because there is no "way it arrived at the answer" it just generated likely tokens. Any retrospective explanation from an LLM is also just a sequence of likely tokens with no connection to reality. The interesting question is: how different is that from what humans do when asked to explain anything they do without thinking it through first?

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes, this is normal. The sound isolation is better than you'd think (drywall on both sides with dead air between), you might be able to tell someone is having a conversation on the other side but you won't be able to understand it without pressing your ear to the wall, and maybe not then. Durability: you can make a hole with a hammer easily, but it stands up to most accidental impacts, and it's easy to repair.

8 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The wings can't fold back so they have a bigger footprint and can't fly through small holes or hide in small places. But given their habitat it's probably not a practical problem most of the time.

8 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

"With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them." - John C Calhoun, pro-slavery politician pre-civil-war

9 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It depends on elasticity of demand. Elastic industries will see their customers' spending shift to inelastic industries that have tariffs and to industries that can get exemptions. That incentivizes those industries to do whatever it takes to get themselves exempted from tariffs.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This made me think a bit, thanks. I still think the "Why is it OK for Elon to get gender affirming care?" argument is potentially rhetorically effective, but it's easy for that to shade into something that sure seems transphobic. It's possible that the point was supposed to be "Elon deadnames people so let's see how he likes it" and the OP didn't think it through.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"We have been voting the lesser of two evils for years and years. Yet, no one is listening to our cries. So we decided to vote for the greater of two evils this time."

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just finished it and I agree. It uses the medium in so many clever ways I've never seen before, and the story is so humane and relatable for a nominal superhero comic.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Did you read the rest of the article? It definitely concludes that it is possible.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Only one organization has been blocked. Anyone else can still use the law to sue people.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Speaking as someone who has sculpted a few octopuses for casting, after the 5th arm you start to wish it didn't have so many arms.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

So where do you think money comes from, if the government can't print it?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Where do you get a pistol that shoots a half pound bullet?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Later: "Your entry (or entries) may be original or may quote another source; if an entry quotes another source, you must state the source. "

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The rules of the contest start: "Your task is to write the beginning of an imaginary novel. Your goal is to make it hilariously bad."

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Originally, in WW2, it was called "duck" tape because it was waterproof. Later it was marketed for connecting ducts and the name changed.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I found out what it means: your spouse can "inherit" the unused part of your exemption, so *their* estate can be larger than $5 million.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but that's two $5mil estates, it doesn't need a special rule "for couples".

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In what scenario would being 'a couple' impact the estate tax? Both parents die at once? A married couple's parent dies? Any tips?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1